Global number of mobile messaging users 2019-2025

Number of mobile phone messaging app users worldwide from 2019 to 2025

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Release date

September 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2019 to June 2021

Supplementary notes

2018 data from previous publications.

*Forecast as of July 2021.

According to the source: "Mobile phone users of any age who use an over-the-top (OTT) messaging app via mobile phone (browser or app) at least once per month:[...] excludes anonymous social sharing apps (e.g. Whisper), social networking apps that offer private messaging capabilities as a secondary feature (e.g. Instagram, Twitter), and apps that solely provide OTT voice/video calling."

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